Lot Japanese Lot.....Need help with ID

[Blacksmith Life]

I believe those were "rope hole" stocks that were drilled all the way through.

I believe the rope on the rifle with the blond stock is a last ditch feature.....The other rifle looks like it's lacking sights and is a training rifle.....Bodes

[bodes]

I believe those were "rope hole" stocks that were drilled all the way through.

You may be right.....The rifle itself is too high quality to be something last ditch....Bodes

[tighe_n]

Thanks,

Yes there are some interesting items in the lot.

The rope is period but not sure if it is the late war last ditch style. I think they were drilled through the stock from what I remember to use less steel.
The rifle has a very low serial #.

The album is very interesting. You don't often see Japanese albums, german you see lots of different styles. The first page is neat as it has pieces of birch bark on the page. in the back of the album is a order sheet to buy other specific albums there is a very nice navy style one that they offered.

The other group of photos have some interesting ones they were taken by US soldiers but there are some gruesome photos in that lot. Dead Japanese men and even a local Philippians tribe man holding a Japanese soldiers head and the back of the photo reads US men paid $5. per head. (ouch)

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type 99 details

[GeorgeP]

Nice grouping!

Your album belonged to a member of the IJA 9th Inf. Regiment, 16th Division. There is a nice little unit diary in the album that shows the soldier's unit leaving Osaka and passing through Korea on its way to Manchuria in 1934. BTW, The 16th Div. ended up on Leyte Island and few members of this division survived the Battle of Leyte by 1945.

The ammunition box is particularly nice, you don't see those everyday.

Tom

[Jareth]

The type 99 rifle is an early Izawa subcontractor for 9 th series. Hard to find arsenal. The stock looks refinished. Rope has age to it. These rifles normally had typical leather or rubberized slings. Hard to say with certainty that rope was always on this rifle or added post war as this was not a last ditch rope hole variation

[tighe_n]

Thanks

Great info!!!!!